Adjustable car-seat and indicator



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.0. B. MIGHAUD. ADJUSTABLE GAR SEAT AND INDICATOR.

No. 400.241. Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

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O. E. MIGHAUD.

ADJUSTABLE CAR SEAT AND INDICATOR.

No. 400,241. Patented Mar. 26. 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

ONESIME E. MICIIAUD, OF ST, LOUIS, MISSOI'RI.

ADJUSTABLE CAR-SEAT AND INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,241, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filed liars: 2, 1888. Serial No. 265,960. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

lie it known that I, ONESIME E. BIIC-HAUD, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Oar-Seats .and Indicators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

I have heretofore made an improvement, E patented August 11L, 1888, No. 387,898, in registers of the kind underconsideration, and in which the mileages of the passengers are reg- I istered in an aggregate form, and the operation of the register mechanism effected by means of and according to the character of the adjustment of the car-seat. In the construction referred to the car-seat is adaptable either to a non-paying passenger, to a half-rate passenger, or to a full-rate passenger, and these various adjustments are accomplished by means'of arms capable of being turned upward into the plane of the chairback or downward over the chair-seat, and which, when turned downward, serve, as the case may be, either to narrow the seat for a half-rate passenger or to divide it for nonpaying passengers.

The present improvement relates to the car-seats and to the means for narrowing and dividing the seat, and for transmitting the movement of the parts used in the seat-adjustment to the register mechanism.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, and illustrating the most desirable mode of carrying out the improvement, Figure 1 is a view showing the car-seat in front elevation and the adjacent side of the ear in vertical cross-section. Fig. 2 is a plan of the seat-frame, the arms being adjusted as for non-paying passengers; Fig. 3, a similar view of the seat-frame, the arms being adjusted as for half-rate passengers Fig. 4, a third view of the seat-frame, the arms being adjusted as for full-rate passengers; Fig. 5, a side elevation of the seat. The view also illustrates the indicator. Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of one of the movable arms of the seat; Figs. 7, 8, and 9, details, being vertical sections of that part of the movable arm and seat-frame used in looking the movable arm at the desired point of adjustment. The key is shown in position in Figs. 8 and 9. Fig. 10 is horizontal section of that portion of the carside with which the seat-cord pulleys are immediately connected, and Fig. 12 a front ele vation of the indicator-target.

The same letters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents an ordinary car-seat, saving as it is modified by the embodiment therein of the improvement in question. It is divided into two compartments, a and a, by means of the fixed arm B. Each of the compartments a a can be adapted to receive a fullrate passenger, a half-rate, or a non-paying one in the following manner:

0 represents an arm adapted to be slipped in the direction of the widththat is, in the direction of the double-headed arrow :0, Fig. 1-from a position immediately alongside the arm B (indicated in broken lines, Fig. 1, and shown in full lines, Fig. I) into a position midway in the width of the compartment a, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which position the compartment to is adapted to receive a nonpaying passenger. The position of the arm D, Fig. 1, (it being nearer to one side of the compartment a,) adapts that compartment ((4') to a halfrate passenger. \Yhen the arms C D are respectively alongside the arms B E, as indicated by the broken lines, Fig. 1, the compartments a and (Mean each receive a full rate passenger. The arms C D are adapted to be moved by hand in the manner described, and they are adapted to be locked in any position by some suitable means, such as the spring-dog F, which is attached to the base 0 of the arm and made to press downward into the perforation f. To release the arm, a key, G, is inserted in the keyhole g until it comes beneath the spring-arn1f' of the dog, and then by rotating the key, as indicated in Fi 9, the dog is raised out of the perforation f and the arm C or D is free to be shifted. The move ment of each of the arms 0 D is communicated to a mileage-registering mechanism, (not shown,) as follows:

ll. represents a rod jointed at one end to the lug 0 upon the arm-frame and at the other end to a lever, I, which at i is pivoted to e11- able it to be turned, as indicated by the broken lines, Fig. 1, as the arm 0 is shifted. A cord,

a view in perspective of the key; Fig. 11, a

J, leads from the lever I around the pulley j to the indicator K, and as the lever I is turned either to a half-way or to a full-way position the target L of the indicator is adjusted accordinglythat is, when the seat-arm O is midway in a compartment, a, the blank space I of the target appears. W'hen the seat-arm is adjusted for a half-rate passenger, the halfrate sign Z appears, and when the seat-arm is adjusted for a full-rate passenger the fullrate sign Z 12, is brought into View at the opening 1 Fig.5. A similar rod, H, connects the other arm, D, with a similar lever, 1, whose cord J is similarly connected with a similarly-operating target, L.

The levers I I are also each provided with a cord H and M, respectively, which leads around a pulley, m and m, respectively, to the mileage-register, and which cords M M, respectively, and according to the positions of the seat-arms O D, serve to control the operation of the mileage-registerthat is, the arms 0 D, when adjusted alongside the arms B E, respectively cause the levers I I and the cords M M to be moved a certain distance, and the mileage-register thereby adjusted to effect full-fare registration; and when the arms 0 D are shifted to form a half-fare seat the cords M M are not moved as far, and the mileage-register is thereby adjusted to effect half-fare registration. As the mileageregister is constructed and operated as in the improvement referred to, it is unnecessary here to explain its nature in detail. The cords M M act just as does the connection which leads from the car-seat to the mileage-register in the'original construction.

The arm-base c is adapted to slide in the car-seat frame a beneath the surface 0, of the car-seat, and to that end the frame a is suitably slotted at a and otherwise shaped at a substantially as shown, to permit of the frame being moved toward and from the car-seat ends. The perforation f is in the carseat frame.

I desire not to be restricted to the particular means shown for communicating the arm motion to the indicator and mileage-register, it being obvious that other devices can therefore be substituted. I prefer, however, the device shown. The arm-base of the arm C is shaped, as shown at 0 to provide room for the rod H of the arm D.

I claim- 1. The combination of the carseat, the movable arm 0, the rod H, lever I, cord J, indicator-target, the car, and the cord-bearings, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the car, the car-seat having the compartments a a, the arms C D, the rods H II, the levers I I, the cords J J, and the indicator and target, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a seat having a laterally-adj ustable arm, of an indicator and actuating devices arranged to be operated by said arm for different indications according to the adjustment of the latter, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the car-seat, the laterally-adjustable arm, the dog, and the key, substantially as described.

WVitness my hand.

' ONESIME E. MICHAUD.

IVitnesses:

O. D. MOODY, A. M. EVEREST. 

